Science Fiction movie releases A-Z by decade...

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While Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey stands as the crowning achievement of the decade and, arguably, one of the greatest films ever made, the 1960s were significant other lesser know movies that have influenced countless movie makers who had contributed to the Science Fiction genre. Chris Marker's 1962 La Jetee has influenced just about every time travel film that has come after it and the 1968 Planet of the Apes, based on Pierre Boulle's novel, is an outstanding movie that sometimes doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

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1960 - 1969 highlights include:

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The 1970s saw the Science Fiction genre explode into the mainstream popular culture and it has never looked back. Thanks largely to a small clique of movie makers, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Philip Kaufman and Walter Murch, Science Fiction took hold in American cinema and, with Star Wars, created the Modern Movie Blockbuster. That being said, the genre was extremely active outside of America, with American-born, UK-Based Stanley Kubrick following up 2001 with an adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange; not to mention Russian Andrei Tarkovsky's two awe-inspiring films: Solaris and Stalker.

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1970 - 1979 highlights include:

The impact of Star Wars upon cinema can never be over-stated. It's not the best movie ever made, but it's spirit and energy caught imaginations around the world and, forty years later, fans are still as committed as ever to its appeal.

Alien will always play Second Chair to Star Wars, but its influence among movie makers and fans still sees the 1979 film's Director Ridley Scott prepared to return to the franchise to push the boundaries of the Xenomorph universe.

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1980 - 1989 highlights include:

Was 1982 the best year ever for
​Science Fiction movies?

It's hard to find another year where so many great, influential Science Fiction movies were released. Some years had a break-out genre hit, like 1977 with Star Wars or a 1989, with a Batman and an Indiana Jones, but 1982 was special because of the quality that came with the quantity.

In addition the Science Fiction films, 1982 also saw the release of movies in other genres that helped to add weight to the argument that it was the best year ever for genre movies in total. Films such as First Blood, Poltergeist, Cat People, Conan the Barbarian, The Dark Crystal, Creepshow, The Beastmaster, 48 Hours, Swamp Thing, Firefox, Megaforce and Friday the 13th Part III.

It's an impressive list of movies when couple with ET: The Extra Terrestrial, Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Thing and Tron.

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1990 - 1999 highlights include:

The Matrix changes cinema reality...

Despite the release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the movie that everyone was talking about in 1999 was The Matrix. Out of nowhere came a movie from a relatively unknown sibling team - The Wachowskis - who blended their love of Martial Arts movies, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Comics and Action movies into one of the best Science Fiction movies to ever come out of a mainstream studio.

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2000 - 2009 highlights include:

James Cameron's game-changer...

2009 saw a number of fantastic science fiction movies released, but nothing compared to the juggernaut that was Avatar. James Cameron is a film-maker who has always pushed the envelope of technology and with Avatar, he created a movie that offered the viewer a fully immersive experience, where the use of three-dimensional photography ticked their visual senses into feeling as though they were not just seeing  the action, but were part of it!

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2010 - 2019 highlights include: